A Strange Victory Dance
A levitating circle within an obtuse triangle can only exist within the second dimension
Stars have no home, yet they guide the lost
The Sun knows no sacrifice
Time drifts away and lands somewhere between yesterday and the day before today
Stones inscribed by wise prophets turn their backs on our ancient ancestors
Rituals of nothingness prevail and do a strange victory dance
Love will replace a moment long forgotten
The Universe shall swell to outrageous proportions
The energy from within will soon rear its ugly face
Waves of rage overcome the sins of the common man
Floating into the 5th dimension would prove fatal
All answers will come in time
Running out of existence in order to flee the gods of constraint
Pressure weighs upon even the smallest of creatures
Diving into the pool of knowledge is futile
Flying with wings of velvet the evil gnomes have seen the end
Let's dig into the deep recesses of our minds and fish for confusing entities
In this maze of darkness, laughter is our light
Never forget the voices and the visions of the lost souls
Live with a passion and you shall make it to the other side
Follow me to the depths of reality and I will show you the sorrow within us all
Fire is but an obstacle of the weak that we must conquer
Together we'll walk into the valley of a thousand thoughts
To ponder the tragic flaws of heroes spoken of by ghostly winds
I see the Earth in all its splendid glory being crumpled like a piece of useless paper
Hurled into the vast Universe, only to be dreamt of by the soldiers of the Ultimate Realm
Here above the clouds is where life begins and suffering ends
It's all around us, yet it patiently waits for us to realize its beauty
When blue has a sound and light has a taste, that's when the parade shall start
Fierce lions roaring with terror will meow like kittens
Calmness and tranquility will once again reign supreme
And our strange victory dance will be all the sweeter
About this poem
In 1999, I wrote a poem called "A Strange Victory Dance", while I was being treated in a psychiatric hospital, for the first time, for Bipolar Disorder. Here is the poem! Enjoy!
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Written on May 28, 1999
Submitted by trevor_d on January 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,966 |
Words | 382 |
Stanzas | 32 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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